After Fu Wan finished speaking, she told Fang Min to lower the rope ladder.
Fang Min always kept her word, and Fu Ming, who had been resting for a while, stood up as well.
"Wan, be careful. If it really comes down to it, cut the fishing line and we'll just throw away the fish."
"Don't say such discouraging things. It's such a big fish, and we've been playing it for so long. How can we let it go?"
Fu Wan replied irritably, "I haven't even gone into the water yet, and this person is already saying discouraging things."
"Besides, don't you all know my abilities?"
Fu Ming choked upon hearing this. Indeed, no one could compare to his sister in underwater skills.
His confidence returned instantly, and he immediately shouted, "Then...then you must catch that fish! It's a matter of my reputation for the rest of the year!"
If he catches this fish, he'll have new bragging material. Ye Lin and the others were speechless. It was at this moment that Ye Lin suddenly remembered something.
As he was playing with the fish, he said to Li Jun, "Da Jun, go look in the bag I brought. My dad got a speargun and forgot to give it to Awan!"
"Huh, a harpoon gun?"
Fu Wan was about to go down the rope ladder when she heard this and stopped.
“Yes, Amin told me before that your harpoon gun exploded, so I told my dad. He used to make bird guns, so making a harpoon gun wouldn't be a problem for him. A couple of days ago we…”
As Ye Lin finished speaking, the fish below started straining again, and he abruptly stopped. Li Jun ran to the cabin to retrieve the harpoon, but Fu Wan glanced at it and didn't take it.
"Give me the harpoon later, I'll just take the knife down now."
The fish down there are as tall as a person and weigh over a hundred pounds. If you hit a fish with that harpoon, you'll be dragged along by it.
Fu Wan didn't want the harpoon she had worked so hard to make to be ruined as soon as it went into the water.
Fang Min and the others also thought of this. Fu Wan took the knife and jumped into the water with a splash. Ye Lin on the deck was also on the verge of exhaustion. Seeing this, Fu Erlu hurriedly took over.
As for Fu Wan, she felt a huge wave crashing over her as soon as she entered the water. She instinctively closed her eyes and quickly submerged.
The seawater was definitely cold, but after a minute of getting used to it, Fu Wan felt extremely comfortable, and all the pores on her body opened up.
She opened her eyes to see a giant grouper thrashing about less than ten meters below her. Such a large fish could only have been caught because the fishing rod and line were of good quality; otherwise, it would have escaped long ago.
Fu Wan tightened her grip on the short knife. This knife was newly made by Ye Jianguo, similar to the previous one, but the feel was somewhat different.
She tried to adjust her grip on the knife, making sure it wouldn't slip from her hand when she was fishing.
The closer you get, the clearer you can see what the fish looks like.
That was a Malabar grouper, also known as a black grouper, scientifically named Malabar grouper. This fish is characterized by its large size, laterally compressed and robust body, light brown color with dark red spots, and five prominent dark brown diagonal stripes.
Image of a spotted wrasse (flower-shaped fish), removed upon request. This type of fish can grow quite large; those interested can search for it online.
This type of fish has a wide distribution and generally inhabits waters below 30 meters. It feeds on other small fish, shrimp, and crabs. They just saw that the fish Fu Ming initially caught was not this spotted grouper.
It was only when that fish was about to be pulled out of the water that it was swallowed whole by the spotted grouper in front of it, which led to the current situation where the spotted grouper was being restrained by the fishing line and was having to outwit and outmaneuver them.
Among fish like the spotted grouper, the largest can be over two meters long and weigh up to 300 kilograms. The one in front of her is only of medium size.
This type of fish is certainly not as valuable as grouper or rat grouper, but it tastes quite good when braised or used in soup.
Fu Wan pondered this in her mind, then slowly approached. Grouper is considered relatively docile among sea fish. If this thing were a swordfish or marlin, she would definitely have cut the fishing line to save her life.
Sensing someone approaching, the spotted flower fish instinctively swam to the side, but the struggle with Fu Ming and the others had exhausted it, so it stopped swimming after only two meters.
As Fu Wanyou approached, she discovered the thick fishing line in the mouth of the spotted croaker. The hook was definitely not visible; it was likely that the croaker had swallowed the fish and hook together.
As long as the hook doesn't fall off, everything's fine, but the people on deck must be exhausted. Fu Wan didn't want to waste her energy and planned to finish this quickly; after dealing with this fish, she still needed to help Boss Sun catch ornamental fish!
Thinking this, Fu Wan circled around to the side of the Flower Demon Spot. The Flower Demon Spot noticed the movement and nearly flung Fu Wan away with a flick of its head. Fortunately, Fu Wan took a step onto the fish's body and then held the fish's head tightly with both hands.
Sensing danger, the grouper struggled violently again, but Fu Wan was not stupid. She held the fish's head tightly with both hands and waited until the fish was exhausted before taking out her short knife again. She plunged the knife under the grouper's gills and quickly pulled it out before swimming to the side.
A stream of murky fish blood quickly spread down, and the fish, in pain, crashed violently into the coral reef beside it. However, this also made it somewhat dizzy. After the fish stopped moving, Fu Wan swam over and hooked the large fishhook she had brought down onto the fish's gills.
The fishhook, or more accurately, the iron hook, was quite thick, with a hemp rope as thick as a finger attached to the shank. When they felt the pull from the rope, Fang Min and Fu Qing on the boat also began to pull the fish with all their might.
Boss Fu, who was steering the boat in the cockpit, had already stopped the boat. Everyone worked together, some pulling on the hooks, some pulling on the rods, and after about twenty minutes of struggling, the spotted wrasse, which was as tall as an adult man, was finally pulled onto the deck.
Wow, this fish is huge!
"Of course, those were the fish I caught!"
Fu Ming's proud voice rang out. Damn it, how long has it been since he's had such good luck? He really needs to go fishing with his sisters to have a chance to catch such a big catch.
At this moment, Fu Laoda had no time to pay attention to his smug eldest son. He turned his head to look in the direction of the rope ladder, but did not find that his daughter had any intention of coming up.
"Ah Wan, the fish have all come ashore, what are you still doing in the water?"
Fu Wan chuckled, wiped the seawater off her face, and said, "Dad, I'm not going up. Sun Youjin asked Uncle San to tell me he wanted some ornamental fish. Since I'm already in the water, I might as well go down and catch some for him!"
"Huh, ornamental fish?"
Boss Fu was unaware of this, and seeing that his daughter was alright, he didn't say anything.
Fortunately, this place was only fifty or sixty nautical miles away from the sea area they were going to, so Boss Fu simply made an agreement with Fu Wan: "Then I'll go trawling first, it'll take at most two hours. After you've finished catching the fish, we'll meet up here again!"
After saying that, he looked around and ran to the cockpit to memorize the approximate location of the place.
Upon hearing that Fu Wan was going fishing, Ye Lin hurriedly tossed her the harpoon.
Picking up the harpoon gun, Fu Wan listened to the cheers on the deck, smiled, and swam back into the water like a mermaid.
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